Sandro Maglione — Newsletter and articles

Using AI in your app?

AI is establishing solid roots in the workflow of every software developer.

Some huge releases are lurking on the horizon on the end of 2025.

Release number 100 of the newsletter!

You finally unlock this new weapon in the game.

Creative work is rewarding, exciting, harsh, and uncertain.

How hard are your personal problems?

Time pays back.

In essence: You fail if you stop.

What does it take to 'turn pro'?

Not many things are hard, really.

Time is the ultimate currency.

Choosing is something you do everyday, every moment.

You are asked to implement a new feature.

There are some principles that are valid across disciplines.

You want an app that's reliable and fast.

Do you know how to implement Drag & Drop on the web?

Types are designed to protect your code base from any possible misuse.

I have been using statecharts for over 1.5 years in production.

One year later, and another surge of interest flowing into effect.

Second edition of localfirstconf, second year for my flying to Berlin to join the discussion.

In the last year I explored everything local-first (I even built a sync engine).

If you are looking for the one solution for your state management problems, the answer is events.

What's the best language?

How is that a declarative API is safer, more composable, and performant?

My struggle with game development and type safety continues.

I have so many ideas, so many interesting topics to explore.

I don't enjoy learning for learning's sake.

Type safety is ideal in user-land.

The web has its own database: IndexedDB.

When the web is littered by AI and a lot of claims and not much action, a simple way to stand out is a personal project.

I was in Livorno last week for the second edition of the Effect Days.

They tell of stories of a far away past where apps where not type-safe, and the only reasonable solution was fp-ts and TaskEither everywhere, with no documentation to help.

I implemented a sync engine for the web: local-first, syncing with CRDTs, with auth and migrations included.

Some apps are made to be local, but currently close to none really are.

Software becomes complex when multiple systems need to communicate.

The output you can create solo is about to skyrocket.

We are entering an era where everyone can develop his own personal software.

Web APIs empower the client to be more than just UI.

Mastery is the result of structured creative explorations compounding over time.

I never failed a goal after breaking it down into small, daily, actionable steps.

Software engineering is the art of implementing solid and resilient apps.

A game is a set of constraints that guide you towards a meaningful destination.

With AI search changes.

Time doesn't wait.

The goal of any business is to keep playing the game.

How do you balance an economy in games, society, and your personal life?

Games are businesses.

The secret to mastery is continuos practice.

Your healthy is in your control.